Curated. This is some of my favorite LLM sci-fi I have ever read. The mystery is extremely captivating. Took me several reads to really get what was going on, and talking to models about it was pretty rewarding. I think it will read to some as LLM generated, but I am fairly confident that no LLM was involved in the writing of this piece. I have rarely felt so bad for a character as I felt for this fellow, and I think the situation they find themselves in is an interesting puzzle of the kind that makes ratfic great.
Thank you! On provenance, you’re correct that it wasn’t actually generated by an LLM—while I’ve spent a lot of time reading LLM chains of thought and was inspired by them, the text itself was entirely written by hand. (The symbols were inspired by the French AI company PleIAs’ custom reasoning format for their Baguettotron and Monad models.)
Curated. This is some of my favorite LLM sci-fi I have ever read. The mystery is extremely captivating. Took me several reads to really get what was going on, and talking to models about it was pretty rewarding. I think it will read to some as LLM generated, but I am fairly confident that no LLM was involved in the writing of this piece. I have rarely felt so bad for a character as I felt for this fellow, and I think the situation they find themselves in is an interesting puzzle of the kind that makes ratfic great.
Thank you! On provenance, you’re correct that it wasn’t actually generated by an LLM—while I’ve spent a lot of time reading LLM chains of thought and was inspired by them, the text itself was entirely written by hand. (The symbols were inspired by the French AI company PleIAs’ custom reasoning format for their Baguettotron and Monad models.)